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Out of Reach [by Lera Auerbach]
Ink on Music Paper © Lera Auerbach When something is out of reach – sometimes it is just out of reach by a tiny bit, not close enough to grasp, but almost there.…
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“On the Day of Atonement” [poem by Yehuda Amichai]
On Yom Kippur in 1967, the Year of Forgetting, I put onmy dark holiday clothes and walked to the Old City of Jerusalem.For a long time I stood in front of an Arab’s hole-in-the-wall shop,not…
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The New York School Diaspora, Part One (Denise Duhamel) [by Angela Ball]
DEAR AMERICAN AMNESIA, I know you are only trying to make white people feel better— and some of us might even appreciate it, but maybe it’s good you sometimes let us remember certain things,…
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Angela Ball, Guest Author
Today we welcome Angela Ball as a guest author. Angela teaches in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. The author of six volumes of poetry, most recently Talking Pillow (University of…
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Great Songs of Cinema [by Elizabeth Samet]
What do you think of first? “Over the Rainbow,” “As Time Goes By,” “Singin’ in the Rain”? Win, place, and show on the AFI’s “Top Movie Songs of All Time” list. My pick, Judy…
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Harryette Mullen: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo of Harryette Mullen by Hank Lazer, Venice, CA, 2007 _______________________________________________________________________________________________ We Are Not Responsible We are not responsible for your lost…
